Mischmetal (neodymium oxide to generic market for mischmetal)

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.8. Mischmetal' is an inorganic substance containing different rare earth metals. It is solid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure. The product is modelled as a mixture of metals, containing 53% Cerium, 21% Lanthanum, 17% Neodymium, 6% Praseodymium, 0.2% Samarium, the rest consisting of Europium, Gadolinium and others. There is no publicly available information about the consumption of this substance on a consumer level. On industrial sites, the substance is used for the manufacture of products in the following sectors: metal hydride batteries and alloying constituent in HSLA steels. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. The reference product amount is 1.